Saturday Story Prompt Collections
2011.02 and 2013.02
By Martha Bechtel, Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2012 Martha Bechtel
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Welcome to an ebook full of stories-yet-to-be!
Saturday Story Prompts are snippits from stories that I never got around to writing. They range from single sentences to longer conversations and are set in fantasy, science fiction, and generic genres. If you're not familiar with my style of prompts, please hop over to my website (www.Martha.net) and checkout the Saturday Story Prompts category.
The following is a collection of all the Saturday Story Prompts posted during February 2011 (20) and sixty percent of the prompts that are scheduled to be posted in February 2013 (12).
You're free to use any of these prompts (modified or verbatim) as starting points to create your own for-profit works; however you may not simply republish them.
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2011.2.5
1. The truth is, the internet does forget.
2. Magic and Alchemy are both unforgiving arts, combining the two almost guaranteed failure– something Professor Albion should have known.
3. Snip-snap went the bones, Nip-nash went the teeth, and bit by bit the Devouring Soul was eaten away by Misty Von Vine and her Amazing Technicolor Mice.
4. If anyone else had seen the unicorn, they weren't admitting it. Patrick wasn't about to go blurting it out either– preteen humans were vicious when they sensed weakness.
5. Where the tower had stood only a vast pool of molten rock remained. Slowly expanding over the centuries as the heat from the volcano channeled through Nib's enchanted hearthstone.
2011.2.12
1. Never look behind you-- never look and you never have to see.
2. My father's eyes were brown and mine were green-- wasn't too hard to figure out why mother had been sent home after I was hatched.
3. Practical Applications of Impractical Daydreams : Room 407A, Seating is Limited so all Time Travelers must apply at least two weeks after the class has been given.
4. They never think to check the in-betweens --places neither wholly this side nor the other-- because the tiny pockets aren't big enough for even the smallest of Kingdoms to take hold.
5. "The world ended yesterday."
Steven looked up at the man across from him on the bus trying to figure out what had prompted the conversation.
"See?" The man flipped the newspaper around so Steven could make out the headlines. "Didn't even notice it myself."
Steven shrugged, "Probably just a prank. Head Office would have told us, I'm sure."
"Suppose we'll find out when we try and get in."
2011.2.19
1. First loves are never easy to lose, but if you have to have your heart broken make sure what you regret is the destination, not the journey.
2. Insanity was infectious, spreading from Hive to Hive in a fractal pattern of death.
3. Wishes were heard and answered by the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee, with special attention given to fish related appeals.
4. Dogs are good at keeping track of times of the day, but not so much with days of the week-- which is where the problem started.
5. Hatching Day was actually more of a hatching week, with clutches starting to crack shell on the third new moon of the year and running well into the waning moon.
2011.2.26
1. It's always night in Yndora.
2. The first betrayal hurts the most, but after that you settle in and learn to play the game.
3. Blue was the color of oceans and skies, endless empty spaces devoid of life-that-spoke-- spaces where Vemordin would never find them.
4. The sun breaks through the clouds in fits and stutters. It's not enough to dry their wings and lift them from the mud, but it's too much light to keep pretending what their slogging through is merely dirt and rain.
5. "Death first!" Coupled with his trademark dramatic pose, the Hero's battle-cry never failed to inspire terror in Evildoers everywhere. Only this time his opponent frowned instead of fled.
"Actually, wouldn't that be death last?" The Evil Overload pointed out. "Strictly speaking, you aren't bound to do much else after that." He was polite, if still irredeemably Evil.
"Well fine," the Hero paused for a moment. "Death before dishonor then?"
"Fair enough."
And they got back to fighting.
2013.02.02
1. They live in poverty, dragging themselves from kill to kill, relying on the curse to keep them alive.
2. Must is too strong a word, but everyone keeps using it. Must do, must be, must have-- it grates at him to hear them filter the world into binary states.
3. Robbing people is harder than it looks, their brains stutter as they try to process the fact I'm asking for their valuables. Purse snatching is much easier, it takes them out of the equation altogether.
2013.02.09
1. Circuses come through town four times a year, massive caravans akin to floating cities perpetually circling the kingdom.
2. Morning tea is a ritual he's never put aside, no matter how chaotic his life became. It's the rock he builds his day around and a silly little thing like dying is not going to take that away.
3. It used to be that the smallest of sounds would echo through the chamber like thunder, but that was when the orchestra was new and flush with funds. Acoustics aren't the first to go, but they're not far from the last…
2013.02.16
1. They come into my world kicking and screaming, but that's because they're adults and not children.
2. It rains here, but it never pours and he finds himself thinking fondly on the monsoons of home. Which is a good sign that it's time to stop drinking.
3. Turning off the internet is like turning off the world-- stepping into the dead zone isn't really that unnerving until you realize how many unconscious habits are built around it.
2013.02.23
1. Clean laundry is the best smell in the world: a whole slate of fresh adventure and new stains to find.
2. "I never asked for you to love me--"
"Yes, how awfully inconvenient of me," he snapped.
"At least you've the courtesy to admit it."
3. The ship's built like an onion, each new layer growing outwards from the old. There are still gaping holes in some levels, where the hull was blown and simply built over instead of repaired.
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